Liliputins -240 Mary Jo Kopechne

Before kicking the bucket "we the people" have to realize that politics are nothing else as boiler rooms or bucket shops pushing bogus stocks ... "
Mary Jo Kopechne


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Liliputins. What, the heck, is this ?
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bucket:

can't carry a tune and cannot carry a tune; can't carry a tune in a bushel basket; can't carry a tune in a bucket; can't carry a tune in a paper sack
Fig. [to be] unable to sing a simple melody; lacking musical ability. I wish that Tom wouldn't try to sing. He can't carry a tune. I don't know why Mary's in the choir. She can't carry a tune in a bushel basket. Joe likes to sing in the shower, though he can't carry a tune in a bucket. I'd try to hum the song for you, but I can't carry a tune in a paper sack.
See also: carry, tune
don't amount to a bucket of spit

Rur. is not worth anything. foe's a shiftless cuss. He don't amount to a bucket of spit. All your pretty promises don't amount to a bucket of spit.
See also: amount, spit
drop in the bucket and a drop in the ocean

Fig. an in significant contribution toward solving a large problem. Jane: We need to stop spending so much. Alan: OK. I'll buy a cheaper brand of toothpaste. Jane: But that's just a drop in the bucket. Many companies donated food and medicine to help the survivors of the earthquake, but it was just a drop in the ocean of what was needed.
See also: drop
For crying out loud! and For crying in a bucket!

Inf. an exclamation of shock, anger, or surprise. Fred: For crying out loud! Answer the telephone! Bob: But it's always for you! John: Good grief! What am I going to do? This is the end! Sue: For crying in a bucket! What's wrong?
See also: crying, out


go to hell in a bucket and go to hell in a handbasket

Fig. to get rapidly worse and worse.

The school system in this district is going to hell in a bucket, and no mistake. His health is going to hell in a handbasket ever since he started drinking again.
See also: hell
kick something off

Fig. to begin something; to hold a party or ceremony to mark the start of something. (Alludes to starting a football game by kicking off the ball for the first play.) The city kicked the centennial celebration off with a parade. They kicked off the celebration with a parade.
See also: kick
kick something off (of) someone or something and kick something off

to knock something off someone or something by kicking. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) The baby must have kicked her covers off of herself in the night. She kicked off her covers in the night.
See also: kick
kick off

1. Lit. to start play in a football game by kicking the ball. Tom kicked off in the last game. Now it's my turn. John tripped when he was kicking off.
2. and kick the bucket Fig. to die. Don't say that George Washington "kicked off." Say that he "passed away." My cat kicked off last night. She was tough as a lion. When I kick the bucket, I want a huge funeral with lots of flowers and crying.
See also: kick
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.


a drop in the ocean  (British, American & Australian) also a drop in the bucket (American)
a very small amount in comparison to the amount that is needed A hundred thousand may seem a lot but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the millions that need to be spent.
See also: drop, ocean
a gut-bucket  (informal)

someone who is very fat


She introduced me to her son who was a real gut-bucket with tattoos all over his arms.

For crying out loud!  (informal)

something that you say when you are annoyed

For crying out loud! Can't you leave me alone even for a minute!
See also: crying, out
kick the bucket  (informal)

to die Didn't you hear? He kicked the bucket. Had a heart attack, I think.
See also: kick
sweat buckets  (informal)

to sweat (= lose water through your skin) a lot I was sweating buckets under my plastic rain jacket.
See also: sweat
Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission.


a drop in the bucket
a very small or unimportant amount What we were paid for our work was a drop in the bucket compared to what the company earned.
See also: drop
kick somebody off something (slang)

to force someone to leave a group Fred was difficult to work with and finally we kicked him off the planning committee. He was kicked off the team.
See also: kick
kick off something

to begin something We like to kick off the summer by having friends over for a barbecue.
See also: kick
kick the bucket

to die Didn't you hear? He kicked the bucket - had a heart attack, I think.
See also: kick
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003. Reproduced with permission.

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The Bucket List is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner, produced by Reiner, Alan Greisman, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The main plot follows two terminally ill men (portrayed by Nicholson and Freeman) on their road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket". The film premiered on December 15, 2007 in Hollywood. It opened in limited release in the United States and Canada on December 25, 2007 and was distributed by Warner Bros. The film opened in wide release in the United States and Canada on January 11, 2008 and was released in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2008, and in Australia on February 21, 2008.[2][3] It received mixed reviews from film critics, but was a box office success, opening at the top of the box office and grossing a total of $175.3 million worldwide.


 
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Word of the Day  October 16 
    
bucket shop   

noun 1 : a gambling establishment that formerly used market fluctuations (as in commodities) as a basis for gaming
 
2 : a dishonest brokerage firm
   
   "Today … the SEC is able to intervene more quickly to shut down frauds, like boiler rooms or bucket shops pushing bogus stocks…." — The Orange County Register, October 15, 2001 "As a result, dozens of operations have sprouted up on the Caymans to supply directors, from one-man bucket shops to powerhouse law firms." — Azam Ahmed, The New York Times, July 2, 2012
 
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In the 1870s, a bucket shop was a lowly saloon that sold beer and other cheap hooch in buckets. How did the term make the jump from watering hole to Wall Street? No one is really sure. Some speculate that it may have been because of the small-time gambling that took place at the original bucket shops, while others claim it derives from the bucket elevator used to transport things between the Chicago Board of Trade and a market for small investors housed directly below it. By the 1880s, bucket shop was being used for pseudo "investment houses" where gamblers bid on the rise and fall of stock prices. These days the term is used for any business that sells cut-price goods, especially airline tickets.
 

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boiler room, noun : a room with equipment for heating a building or ship : a room in which a boiler is located

: a room with many telephones that are used by people who call strangers and use dishonest or forceful methods to try to sell them something

Full Definition of BOILER ROOM

1:  a room in which a boiler is located
2:  a room equipped with telephones used for making high-pressure usually fraudulent sales pitches

First Known Use of BOILER ROOM
1903

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Previous Word in the Dictionary: boilerplate
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Boiler Room Girls

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The "Boiler Room Girls" were the female members of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign staff. The boiler room contained desks divided by regions of the country, i.e. Northeast (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine), etc. Each "girl" was assigned a regional desk and was responsible for daily communication in and out of the Washington campaign headquarters to each state director in their region. Issues and problems were discussed daily and at the end of the day a decision book was compiled and sent to the candidate (RFK) and the campaign manager (Stephen Smith). Decision were reached on each daily issue and the following morning those decision came out from the regional desk officer ("boiler room girl") to the state director. So if there was an issue with labor, or abortion rights or there weren't enough bumper stickers, etc. those issues were resolved. Also as each state primary was held, the desk officers kept track of the delegate count - both for RFK, McCarthy and Humphrey - leading up to the convention. Just before the Democratic National Convention the boiler room was to be moved to a temporary office right off the convention floor where the same delegate officers conversed with the same state leaders. Thus at any given moment, the boiler room became the heartbeat of the campaign.

Six of them, listed in descending order of age (in 1968), were the following:

Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, who died a year after RFK's campaign, off Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 in a highly publicized and controversial car accident involving her driver, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who pleaded guilty after leaving the scene of an accident;
Mary Ellen Lyons, a graduate of Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, sister of Nance Lyons, and now a practicing attorney in Boston;
Nance Lyons, 26, a graduate of College of the Sacred Heart in Newton, Massachusetts, sister of Mary Ellen Lyons, and now a practicing attorney in Boston;
Esther Newberg, 26, now a New York literary agent and executive
Susan Tannenbaum, 24, now a retired lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and wife of a Washington lawyer; and
Rosemary "Cricket" Keough (now Rosemary Keough Redmond Kerrebrock), 23, a graduate of Manhattanville College and Boston University who went on to be partner in a Lincoln, Massachusetts law firm with her late husband.
External links[edit]Who's who at the Kennedy inquest - time.com, September 5, 1969
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Mary Jo Kopechne

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Mary Jo Kopechne
 
1962 college yearbook portrait of Kopechne
Born Mary Jo Kopechne
(1940-07-26)July 26, 1940
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Died July 18, 1969(1969-07-18) (aged 28)
Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Ethnicity Polish-American
Alma mater Caldwell College
Occupation Teacher, secretary, and political campaign specialist
Known for Chappaquiddick incident
Political party Democratic
Religion Roman Catholic
Parents Joseph and Gwen Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne (/k;;p;kni/; July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American teacher, secretary, and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident at Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, while a passenger in a car being driven by U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy.


Life

Kopechne was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,[1] and was the daughter and only child of Joseph and Gwen Kopechne.[1] Her father worked as an insurance salesman. Kopechne was of Polish-American heritage.[2] Her family moved to Berkeley Heights, New Jersey when Kopechne was an infant.[1][3] She attended parochial schools growing up.[4] After graduating with a degree in business administration from Caldwell College for Women in 1962,[1][5] Kopechne moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to teach for a year at the Mission of St. Jude,[1] an activity that was part of the Civil Rights Movement.[6] By 1963, Kopechne relocated to Washington, D.C., to work as secretary for Florida Senator George Smathers.[1] She joined New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy's secretarial staff following his election in November 1964.[1] For that office she worked as a secretary to the senator's speechwriters and as a legal secretary to one of his legal advisers.[1] Kopechne was a loyal worker. Once, during March 1967, she stayed up all night at Kennedy's Hickory Hill home to type a major speech against the Vietnam War, while the senator and his aides such as Ted Sorenson made last-minute changes to it.[4][7][8]

During the 1968 U.S. presidential election, Kopechne helped with the wording of Kennedy's speech of March 1968 announcing his presidential candidacy.[4] During his campaign, she worked as one of the "Boiler Room Girls". This was an affectionate nickname given to six young women whose office area was in a hot, loud, windowless location in Kennedy's Washington campaign headquarters.[2][4][7][9] They were vital in tracking and compiling data and intelligence on how Democratic delegates from various states were intending to vote; Kopechne's responsibilities included Pennsylvania.[7][9] Kopechne and the other staffers were knowledgeable politically,[9] and were chosen for their ability to work skillfully for long, hectic hours on sensitive matters.[2] They talked daily with field managers and also helped distribute policy statements to strategic newspapers.[9]

Kopechne was devastated emotionally by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968. After working briefly for the Kennedy proxy campaign of George McGovern, she stated she could not return to work on Capitol Hill, saying "I just feel Bobby's presence everywhere. I can't go back because it will never be the same again."[2][7] But as her father later said, "Politics was her life,"[7] and in December 1968 she used her experience to gain a job with Matt Reese Associates, a Washington, D.C., firm that helped establish campaign headquarters and field offices for politicians and was one of the first political consulting companies.[1][6][10] By mid-1969 she had completed work for a mayoral campaign in Jersey City, New Jersey.[2] She was on her way to a successful professional career.[11] Kopechne lived in the Washington neighborhood of Georgetown with three other women.[1] She was a fan of the Boston Red Sox and of fellow Polish-American Carl Yastrzemski.[2] She was a devout Roman Catholic with a demure, serious, "convent school" demeanor, rarely drank much, and had no reputation for extramarital activities with men.[2][10][11]

Death

Main article: Chappaquiddick incident

On July 18, 1969, Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The celebration was in honor of the dedicated work of the Boiler Room Girls, and was the fourth such reunion of the Robert F. Kennedy campaign workers.[12] Kopechne reportedly left the party at 11:15 p.m. with Robert's brother Ted, after he — according to his own account — offered to drive her to catch the last ferry back to Edgartown, where she was staying.[7] She did not tell her close friends at the party that she was leaving, and she left her purse and keys behind.[7] Kennedy drove the 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off a narrow, unlit bridge, which was without guardrails and was not on the route to Edgartown.[7] The Oldsmobile landed in Poucha Pond and overturned in the water; Kennedy extricated himself from the vehicle and survived, but Kopechne did not.[7]

Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne's body were discovered the next morning.[7] Kopechne's parents said that they learned of their daughter's death from Kennedy himself,[1] before he informed authorities of his involvement.[5] However, they learned Kennedy had been the driver from wire press releases some time later.[5]

A private funeral for Kopechne was held on July 22, 1969, at St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth, Pennsylvania.[13][14] It was attended by Kennedy, his wife Joan, his sister-in-law Ethel, and hundreds of onlookers.[13] She is buried in Larksville, Pennsylvania,[15] in the parish cemetery on the side of Larksville Mountain.

Aftermath[edit]A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. He received a two-month suspended sentence.[7] On a national television broadcast that night, Kennedy said that he had not been driving "under the influence of liquor" nor had he ever had a "private relationship" with Kopechne.[16] Massachusetts officials pressed for weeks to have Kopechne's body exhumed for an autopsy, but in December 1969 a Pennsylvania judge sided with the parents' request not to disturb her burial site.[15]

The Chappaquiddick incident and Kopechne's death became the topic of at least 15 books, as well as a fictionalized treatment by Joyce Carol Oates. Questions remained about Kennedy's timeline of events that night, specifically his actions following the incident.[17] The quality of the investigation has been scrutinized, particularly whether official deference was given to a powerful and influential politician, and his family.[17] The events surrounding Kopechne's death damaged Kennedy's reputation and are regarded as a major reason that he was never able to mount a successful campaign for President of the United States.[18] Kennedy expressed remorse over his role in her death in his posthumously-published memoir, True Compass.[19]

References

McFadden, Robert D. (July 20, 1969). "Victim Drawn to Politics". The New York Times. 
^ a b c d e f g Canellos, Peter (2009). Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy. Simon and Schuster. pp. 148–150. ISBN 1-4391-3817-6. 
^ Santiago, Katherine. "U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy's career connected to N.J.", The Star-Ledger, August 26, 2009. Accessed February 27, 2011. "Kopechne, 28, and her family moved to New Jersey when she was an infant and resided in Berkeley Heights."
^ a b c d Oppenheimer, Jerry (1995). The Other Mrs. Kennedy (4th ed.). Macmillan Books. p. 504. ISBN 0-312-95600-2. 
^ a b c Damore, Leo (1988). Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up. Washington: Regnery Gateway. pp. 58–59. ISBN 0-89526-564-8. 
^ a b Kappel, Kenneth R. (1989). Chappaquiddick Revealed: What Really Happened. New York: Shapolsky Publishers. p. 16. ISBN 0-944007-64-3. 
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Russell, Jenna (February 17, 2009). "Chapter 3: Chappaquiddick: Conflicted ambitions, then, Chappaquiddick". The Boston Globe. Retrieved August 26, 2013. 
^ Kappel, Chappaquiddick Revealed, p. 189.
^ a b c d Damore, Senatorial Privilege, pp. 118–119.
^ a b Clymer, Adam (1999). Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography. New York: Wm. Morrow & Company. pp. 144–145. ISBN 0-688-14285-0. 
^ a b Leamer, Laurence (2004). Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty. Wm. Morrow & Company. pp. 124–125. ISBN 0-06-620965-X. 
^ Damore, Senatorial Privilege, p. 154.
^ a b "Kennedy Attends Kopechne Funeral". The Fort Scott Tribune. Associated Press. July 22, 1969. p. 1. 
^ Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography, p. 150.
^ a b "Judge Rules Mary Jo Will Not Be Exhumed For Autopsy". Lodi News-Sentinel. United Press International. December 11, 1969. p. 1. 
^ Fenton, John H. (October 31, 1969). "Kennedy Granted a Closed Inquest in Kopechne Case". The New York Times. 
^ a b Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography, pp. 152–154.
^ Barone, Michael; Cohen, Richard E. (2008). The Almanac of American Politics. Washington: National Journal Group. p. 792. ISBN 978-0-89234-116-0. 
^ "Kennedy memoir reveals remorse over Chappaquiddick". The Detroit News. Associated Press. September 9, 2009. 
External links[edit]FBI files on Mary Jo Kopechne and Chappaquiddick
Mary Jo Kopechne at Find a Grave
v t e Ted Kennedy
 
February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009
United States Senator from Massachusetts, 1962—2009 
 
Electoral
history United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 1962 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1964 1970 1976 1982 1988 1994 2000 2006 United States presidential election, 1980   
 
Books My Senator and Me: A Dog's-Eye View of Washington, D.C. (2006) True Compass (2009) 
 
Family Joan Bennett Kennedy (first wife) Victoria Reggie Kennedy (second wife, widow) Kara Kennedy (daughter) Edward M. Kennedy, Jr. (son) Patrick J. Kennedy (son) Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (father) Rose Kennedy (mother) Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (brother) John F. Kennedy (brother presidency) Rosemary Kennedy (sister) Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish (sister) Eunice Kennedy Shriver (sister) Patricia Kennedy Lawford (sister) Robert F. Kennedy (brother) Jean Kennedy Smith (sister) Patrick J. Kennedy (grandfather) John F. Fitzgerald (grandfather) 
 
Related Awards and honors Political positions Kennedy Compound Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act Chappaquiddick incident Mary Jo Kopechne Friends of Ireland 
 
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Name Kopechne, Mary Jo
Alternative names 
Short description Teacher, secretary, and campaign specialist
Date of birth July 26, 1940
Place of birth Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of death July 18, 1969
Place of death Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, United States

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